Iran to Triple Uranium Enrichment

Some interesting news for your morning. As if the Middle East wasn't unstable or violent enough it would not appear that things could get a whole lot worse. There was a report that Iran was just two months away from a functioning nuclear warhead and another stating that it had purchased a nuclear-capable warhead.

Now the head of the Iranian nuclear program has announced that the Islamic Republic will triple its uranium production as well as upgrade their centrifuges.

According to Abbasi, the nuclear chief, the new centrifuges at Fordo would be more advanced than the decades old P-1 type once acquired on the black market and in use at Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz.

“Soon, we will install 164-machine centrifuge cascades of the new generation (at Fordo),” Abbasi was quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying after a Cabinet meeting.

He also added that Iran would triple the output of its higher enrichment program this year and would move the entire program to Fordo from Natanz. The U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, would monitor the transfer, he said.

Last month, the IAEA said in a report that Iran estimates it has produced a total of about 125 pounds, or 56.7 kilograms, of uranium enriched to 20 percent by May 21st.

Great. Just great.

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